Wednesday, 5 June 2013

New York Post: ‘Fool’s gold’ coins

They weren’t wooden nickels — but a Queens man still took the world’s largest coin dealer for $31,000 when he sold three supposedly rare gold US coins that were actually Chinese counterfeits, according to a new lawsuit.

Boris Koyen Aminov, 37, of Rego Park, sold Heritage Auctioneers & Galleries on Park Avenue the three gold coins in April.

Aminov identified himself as a coin collector and presented supposedly rare coins to Heritage for sale, the auction house says in court papers filed yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

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